Susan

“Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.”
― Alain de Botton

“Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.”
― Alain de Botton

“...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom
we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during
long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is
gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the
beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation
about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or
blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love